NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children with intestinal failure who are dependent on parenteral nutrition through an indwelling central venous catheter, the use of ethanol locks rather…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to other anticoagulants or placebo, the use of dabigatran for various clinical indications is associated with an increased risk of acute coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While first-void urine specimens have been used traditionally to test for Chlamydia trachomatis, newer DNA detection methods produce reliable results using midstream specimens,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term inhalation therapy with dry-powder mannitol improves lung function in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), a multinational team reports in the American Journal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While observational data indicate that closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) is better than medical therapy in preventing stroke recurrence, the results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation MI, access via the radial artery is associated with better outcomes than is the femoral…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a phase 2 study of maintenance therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer, adding enzastaurin to bevacizumab plus bolus and infusional 5-fluorouracil-leucovorin (LV5FU2) did…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with significant mitral valve regurgitation who are not considered candidates for surgery, catheter-based mitral leaflet repair with the MitraClip device (Abbott…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) on long-term warfarin therapy, an interruption in treatment more than doubles the risk of death or a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Neither the frequency nor the duration of upper respiratory infections (URIs) in preschoolers are reduced by prophylactic treatment with montelukast, according to the…